Middlebury College

Search Statistics from the GSA

The Google Search Appliance lets us create “collections” of portions of the site that can be searched. These collections are what you see in the drop-down field on http://search.middlebury.edu. The LIS collection is also the one being searched if you enter a query on the LIS or Library home pages on the CMS. This collection is searched much, much less frequently than the main search, however we may find the results interesting.

Here are the top 15 queries of the LIS search collection in the last year:

jstor

51

tigercat

15

eres

11

psychinfo

10

special collections

9

mla

8

citation

8

JSTOR

8

oxford english dictionary

8

lexis nexis

7

thesis

7

printing

7

library hours

7

music library

7

segue

6

And here is the same for the LIS Wiki collection:

novell

2

server

2

tigercat

2

computer upgrade schedule

1

inurl:pdf

1

proprietary name

1

freeze

1

video

1

antivirus software

1

Novell, Tigercat

1

How to use Novell and Tigercat

1

wordpress

1

blog

1

after graduating

1

Controller’s Office

1

For comparison, and so you can see how infrequently the LIS search collection is used, here are the top 15 LIS-related queries from the “All” collection, which as you might expect indexes all the other collections:

segue

1152

library

388

email

306

tigercat

246

webmail

214

bannerweb

163

library hours

129

INB

119

jstor

108

inb

103

eres

102

banner web

83

netstorage

77

banner

72

computers

71

(Note on this last one: midcat is the 16th term with 70 queries).

You can see the full reports for each, which include more information at these on-campus-only links:

I also sent an email to Chris Norris asking for assistance getting us some information from Google Analytics. He was out yesterday and today, but appears to be in his office next week, just booked straight through with meetings. I’ll keep you posted on this item. Here is the list of questions I sent him:

1. What are the top 5 search terms within the LIS? (I’ll get this from the GSA)

2. What are the top 5 pages on the LIS site?

3. What is the most common click path from /academics/lis to the LISt blog and the LIS Wiki?

4. What links on /academics/lis (the landing page) are clicked on the least?

5. Same as (4), but applied to /academics/lis/lib, /academics/lis/help, and /academics/lis/about.